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By Jenni . September 22, 2016 . 10:00am An official English release of Princess Maker 2 is coming to Steam. Studio Gainax and CFK will be bringing the life simulator to Windows PCs as Princess Maker 2 Refine.

I am glad that my hopes for a strong finish to this season was fulfilled. If last week was an example of an Illya episode failing to deliver, this was an episode that did the exact opposite. It is almost frustrating how much better this episode wa...

Sep22 THE MAN. THE LEGEND. THE ONLY GUY ON THIS SHOW WHO HAS NO POWERS. School is just getting started, but a lot of anime are ending now. That's. . . all I have time to say here really since school is REALLY GETTING STARTED NOW AHHH ASSIGNMENTS L...

The trend of "hallyu," the term for the global Korean pop culture following leads to the expansion of Korean culture to the world. K-Pop draws many people to Korean-made products and has established itself a unique genre in the global music market.

Nissin Foods started offering an AR voice drama with anime bishojo characters personified from five flavors of "Nissin Raoh," "Five Minutes for Hot Water, Three Minutes to Eat, Eight Minutes to Fall in Love.

Twelve anime feature films from Sentai Filmworks, a leading North American anime licensor and distributor, are now available on Steam, a leading online destination for digital content. Starting on September 21, 2016, Steam users will be able to st...

Xseed Games shared a new English trailer for Acquire's upcoming PS Vita, Akiba's Beat, with a look at its main characters, maids, and more on the game's action. NEET: Short for "Not in Employment, Education, or Training.

but YonkouProductions has got his hands on it and he leaked this breaking news on his twitter account: Gintama is getting a new anime season! pic. twitter. com/MOaHYY3vj7 - YonkouProductions (@YonkouProd) 21 septembre 2016 So now we know that Hide...

Atlus shared a new video for Persona 5, with an introduction trailer for the Velvet Room's two guards, Caroline and Justine, who are also cooperation characters. Caroline and Justine are twins who are "prison guards" of the Velvet Room in Persona 5.

Currently, the only methods to gain access to the demo are to already have "Battle Demo Ver. 1. 0," to have obtained a download code by playing the show floor demo at Tokyo Game Show 2016, to participate in the Jutland Kingdom national anthem sing...

Square Enix is working to reduce the extended load times present in the Tokyo Game Show 2016 demo of SaGa: Scarlet Grace, series creator Akitoshi Kawazu said on Twitter. "Regarding the Tokyo Game Show live play footage of SaGa: Scarlet Grace, than...

Sakurada is a town where half of the population have special abilities. The story centers around Kei Asai, who has a special ability to remember everything perfectly, and Misora Haruki, who can turn back or "reset" time for a maximum of three days.

When I wanted to look back at Voltron: Fleet of Doom, I never realized how complicated the experience would be. This World Events Productions one-off movie tried to connect two adapted anime in a common universe.

Looks like "Gintama" will not be getting just a live-action movie next year but a new anime season as well! (Artzy/ YouTube) Following the announcement of the live-action movie adaptation of "Gintama," Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced on Mond...

To promote her upcoming 1st best album "-INFINITE Selection-" to be released on September 28, 23-year-old voice actress/singer Sachika Misawa has streamed full version music videos of her three single songs, all of which were used as a TV anime th...

By now, everyone knows that Scarlett Johansson will star as Motoko Kusanagi in the Hollywood film production of "Ghost in the Shell", out next year. Everyone also knows about the "whitewashing" controversy surrounding the film.

This week LeftField Media announced the debut of Anime NYC, a new convention focusing on anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture launching next year in New York City. The first Anime NYC will take place November 17-19, 2017 in Midtown Manhattan's J...

Yahoo today released a new iOS app for its recently launched Yahoo View experience, bringing trending video clips and full-length anime episodes from a number of popular shows to iPhone and iPad for free.

The forthcoming Lostorage Incited Wixoss TV anime now has its ending theme and character designs confirmed along with a new TV ad to tie it all together. First, the character designs for new main characters Suzuko Homura and Chinatsu Morikawa have...

Crunchyroll has expanded its back catalog reach once again this week as they've now added another Nozomi Entertainment series to the service with Pita-Ten. The full twelve episode series is now available for premium users on the site in its origin...

Keio University is one of Japan's oldest and most respected institutions, and they are now offering free online courses. More interestingly it introduces Japan's huge anime and manga subculture, which really kicked off in the 1970's and 1980's.

The official website of the Yuri! ! ! On Ice project has revealed that the upcoming original TV anime will start airing on October 6th. In addition, additional members of the cast and the Opening theme song of the series was previewed in video.

The Robert Rodriguez-directed live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita manga has another new actor to add to the cast. Following up on the recent announcement of Jackie Earle Haley as a monstrous cyborg, we have another villai...

Hmmm, there's this strange taste in my mouth. It's not a bitter flavour, it's not a sour flavour, it's not even a salty flavour, it has an almost. . . uncomfortably disappointing accents. It's strange.

Even in the internet age, printed flyers are still a powerful marketing tools especially for films and a must-have item for the fans. Check the upcoming anime movie flyers that I found at the venues of the Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair 2016...

Following the broadcast of the fourth season of Hiroshi Hiroyama's Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya anime, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei! ! , it was revealed that an anime movie based on the series is currently in production.

It's only a week to go before the legendary showdown between Naruto and Sasuke gets its anime rendition on back-to-back episodes of Naruto Shippuden on September 29, next Thursday on TV Tokyo. The Naruto-Sasuke final battle is one of the bests, if...

Japanese cosplay shop ACOS is scheduled to release nine cosplay wigs inspired by the members of Aqours, the school idol unit in the ongoing TV anime Love Live! Sunshine! ! , at its 13 stores and Animate stores in Japan from November 17.

Adult Swim has announced on its Facebook page that it's losing its 8pm hour. This is resulting in its Saturday Toonami anime-related content block moving its start time from 11:30 to midnight, and losing half-an-hour as a consequence.

Mickey Mouse is one of the most popular cartoon characters in Japan, in line with beloved domestics like Totoro, Doraemon and Hello Kitty. But 80 years ago that certainly wasn't the case, at least not according to a 1934 propaganda film that cast ...